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The parish and the school are under the protection of
Saint Sebastian. We who attend the church or school are the Saint Sebastian
community.

On Sunday, January 20 at noon (12pm) we would like to
celebrate the feast of Saint Sebastian with a trilingual Mass and a potluck.

I want the three linguistic communities of our parish
and the families of the school to come together this year to celebrate this
feast.

Each family can bring an entree and a drink that we
will place on a table to share. The parish will take care of the dessert.

See you soon.

Happy New Year
2019.

Have a great week.

Fr. Germán

We celebrated Our
Lady of Guadalupe feast on

December 12th, 2018

ON SATURDAY NOVEMBER 17TH WE HAD OUR THANKSGIVING MEAL WITH THE HOMELESS OF OUR NEIGHBORHOOD

150 PLAT WERE DISTRIBUTED

DIA DE LOS MUERTOS

HAPPY EASTER 2018

Fr German’s
message

COME TO SEE THE PASCHAL CANDLE 2018

Since I was ordained as a priest (1990) I have
been fortunate enough to receive the decoration for the Paschal Candle from
Germany.

Ludger Kintzinger studied with me in Rome. Each
year, he continues to make use of his artistic talents to create a gorgeous
decoration for the Paschal Candle at his parish, Mary of Peace (in Vechta,
Germany), and at the same time to create another just like it for the parish
where I am.

The pastor of the German parish, Father Richard,
who celebrated his 80th birthday in March 2016 is very proud of his
paschal candle. He is happy to see his parish, which is part of a town of
25,000 people, in communion with a parish from a large city, Los Angeles,
thanks to a paschal candle

This year, Ludger
took “Hands” as his theme.

There are
hundreds of verses in the Bible that mention hands.

The hands are a
symbol frequently used to talk about the community. They lead us to think about
the community, about living together, about help, about work. The hands make us
think of tenderness, a loving touch, a prayer, and the hands of God who seeks
the hands of man to save him, to get him out of his suffering. But hands can
also represent struggle, war, oppression, slavery, prison.

In the paschal
candle of this year, we have hands that are directed up and placed on a golden
background. They are directed towards the light of the candle and they are also
a symbol of supplication, a cry of all men and women who suffer. The golden
color reminds us of the Byzantine icons that use that color to represent
holiness, divinity. On that background of sanctity and divinity is the humanity
represented by those hands of different colors. Colors remember our diversity
and lead us to think about the multiple concerns, intentions and activities of
our humanity.

My friend Ludger
says that in German the word hand is used in the formation of different words.
(Action = Handlung; Negotiation = Verhandlung; Craftsman = Händler; Treatment =
Behandlung ...).

I invite you to
find at least 5 words in your language that use the word hand.

Ludger tells that
in Münster / Westphalia in one of the largest Gothic churches, St Ludgeri,
there was a huge Crucifix in wood that had lost his hands in the bombing of
World War II. He was restored but no new hands were placed. The restorers put
the following words: "I have no other hands than yours".

Our Paschal
Candle reminds us that Christ was resurrected for all. The light of Easter
illuminates and heats the hands of all those who approach it. In this year 2018
the feast of Easter invites us to open our hands to receive the light and
strength of the risen Christ. To transform ourselves into the hands of Christ
to work for peace and for the wellbeing of all our brothers and sisters.

Try to find
yourselves the message that the Lord offers you through this beautiful paschal
candle.

During this
Easter season, let us take time to contemplate our parish’s Paschal Candle. Let
us remember that somewhere in northern Germany, the same candle is shining. Let
us consider those who, far from us, are praying before the same Paschal Candle.
This is the catholicity of the Church.

Let us use the
Paschal Candle to pray before the risen Christ and to confess our fears and
suffering to Him. May we be illuminated by the light of the resurrection so
that our lives would shine with Christ’s presence.

The Paschal Candle will be lit throughout the
entire Easter Season and will shine during all baptisms, confirmations,
ordinations, weddings, funerals and all major liturgical events of the Church
so as to remind us that we belong to the Christ and that the Center of our
Christian lives is Jesus Christ, our light.

Come and reflect on our Paschal Candle and keep
in mind that in our darkness Christ kindles the fire that never dies away.
Alleluia.

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The St. Sebastian community is
in need of new volunteers as Lectors, Eucharistic Ministers and Musicians for
the 5pm Saturday and 9am Sunday English masses. Our English-speaking community
cannot thrive without a strong weekly worship,
and that worship depends on the participation of the community in these
vocations. Please consider giving back to your parish through your time and
talent, as your help would be so appreciated by everyone in the community. If
you are willing and able, please speak to any of the ministers here at mass
today. Thank you so much.

TAIZÉ
PRAYER IN ST SEBASTIAN CHURCHEVERY
1st FRIDAY OF THE MONTH AT 7PM